Monday, April 9, 2012

Do cavy's need additional vitamin C?

By Allan Bakier


Guinea pigs can't provide their own C-vitamin, so you've to ensure that your pets gets adequate vitamin C in their daily feed.

How come cavies need vitamin C?

You may be having vitamin and mineral pills to be sure to consume enough vitamins, but you should also make confident that your guinea pig receives adequate vitamins. Distinct from most other mammals, guinea pigs are unable to form ascorbic acid in their body system.

The ways to give your guinea pig vitamin c

The good news is, you can effortlessly give your guinea pig vitamin c and you can attempt this number of ways:

When you give food to your guinea pig with fresh greens, choose produce with extra high content of C- vitamin. Use for example, parsley (that guinea pigs love) which includes approximately. 40 times as much ascorbic acid as carrots. Also sweet peppers, broccoli, rose hips and orange contains a lot of C- vitamins but you should only give the orange along with other citrus fruits once per week, because the level of acidity that they consist of may affect your guinea pig teeth's if the get it too much.

Try to find feed pellets made especially for guinea pigs - they usually are supplied vitamin C

Ascorbic Acid droplets can be put into drinking water.

Sadly vitamin C rapidly stop working in water, so it's not the ultimate way to do it, and you can risk that your guinea pigs do not like to drink water mainly because it tastes wrong

If your guinea pig is expecting, it should have double the amount vitamin c usually!

Shit Vitamins

if you realize that your guinea pig consumes some of his own feces, do not be concerned, there is nothing amiss with your guinea pig, when it eats its own feces it reuse some minerals, vitamins and bacteria that it needs to be healthy. If you look hard if you notice, that it only consumes some waste that looks somewhat different, they are smaller and appear softer.

Indications of vitamin c deficiency

Already after 2 weeks without vitamin c, your cavy well-being is influenced.

Be on the lookout for the signals because they may be a sign of that your guinea pig doesn't get sufficient C-vitamin: diarrhea, losing weight or eating less than usual. Also a neglected coat is usually a sign of ascorbic acid insufficiency.

When you eat your own everyday vitamin think that also your cavy needs vitamins and healthy food.


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